Comments on: On reinventing the wheel http://www.sixpica.com/blog/2008/05/15/on-reinventing-the-wheel/ Getting the most out of your Foreign Service Career Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:32:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: DS http://www.sixpica.com/blog/2008/05/15/on-reinventing-the-wheel/comment-page-1/#comment-8 DS Fri, 16 May 2008 15:22:24 +0000 http://www.sixpica.com/blog/?p=23#comment-8 I'm all for not having to reinvent the wheel. David Allen has an excellent blog on GTD. Check out Zenbe for a cleaner inbox, won't work with official email though. Anyway, I'm just going to add that for anyone with ambitions of becoming COM one day, it's not enough to just make friends with a good GSO. I know of folks who don't want to do a GSO tour, but that's the area that teaches one the basic workings of a mission, take away a good logistics person and things do fall apart. GSO, and of course, a consular tour. I’m all for not having to reinvent the wheel. David Allen has an excellent blog on GTD. Check out Zenbe for a cleaner inbox, won’t work with official email though.

Anyway, I’m just going to add that for anyone with ambitions of becoming COM one day, it’s not enough to just make friends with a good GSO. I know of folks who don’t want to do a GSO tour, but that’s the area that teaches one the basic workings of a mission, take away a good logistics person and things do fall apart. GSO, and of course, a consular tour.

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